Mexican newspaper asks drug gangs what to publish | News & Politics | News & Comment | The First Post

Mexican newspaper asks drug gangs what to publish | News & Politics | News & Comment | The First Post: "Drug lords have forced a Mexican newspaper to pull back from its hard-hitting coverage of the country's vicious gang warfare after apparently killing one of its journalists.
Luis Carlos Santiago, 21, was shot dead last week while sitting in a parked car (above) in Ciudad Juarez. He had been working as a trainee photographer for El Diario, a newspaper that has built a reputation for its in-depth reporting of the drug-related violence that has claimed the lives of more than 2,000 people in Juarez so far this year.
The Mexican town lies on the border opposite the US city of El Paso and the cartels are fighting for the right to supply the lucrative American market with narcotics. Already, the gangs have denied they were involved in Santiago's murder, and there are suggestions that the dead photographer was not even the intended target."